58 people have died in 57 separate collisions involving unaccompanied learner drivers in last eight years
There have been 165 deaths in road crashes so far this year, a decrease of five when compared with the same period in 2023. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins DublinSome 58 people have died across 57 separate collisions involving unaccompanied learner drivers since 2016, while overall, 69 fatal collisions involved learner drivers, meaning 12 were driving accompanied.
Briefing notes prepared by the RSA for outgoing Taoiseach Simon Harris in April noted it was an increase compared with the prior four years “when between three and five learner drivers were involved annually”. Furthermore, the collision database does not include information on whether a learner driver involved in a collision had taken a driving test in the past.“It’s alarming to know just how bad the problem is in fatal and serious injury crashes, the high volume of learners that were involved, especially the 83 per cent of unaccompanied learners,” she said.
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